The Pinball Hall of Fame
If you were ever a pinball machine fan at any time in your life, this place may blow your mind. I first heard of it when I visited the Riviera hotel. Located next to their food court was an arcade, and they had working pinball machines, some of which were from the 1960s. These are the type of machines I would play back in the 1970s. The mechanical type that had mechanical reels for the scoring. This was long before the digital electronics versions came along in the 980s. I was taken back that these machines existed, and that they could be played. Needless to say, I spent more than a few quarters playing these machines.
When they closed down the Riviera, they took away my pinball. I remember noticing that these machines
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Most notable was Asteroids. To me, this was the first single player arcade game I can remember. I recall seeing lines at the local shopping mall to play the game; lines that I occasionally stood in. I got a thrill playing the game. My youthful photographer, who was with me at the time, was not so impressed by the game, but I suppose you must be a certain age to understand how great this game was, back in the day. There was also a Space Invaders game here as well. This was also an early arcade game that had it share of fans.
I plan on going back here again. There is really nothing else like it. Even back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when there were arcades with rows of pinball machines from that spanned 30 years of design and manufacturing, there were never this many machines gathered together in one place. Like so many other things in this city, it is something that is unique, and I recommend it to anyone that is visiting Las Vegas and loves playing pinball.
Getting to the Pinball Hall of Fame is easy. It is about 1.5 miles east of the Strip on E. Tropicana. It is located to on the left side of the street just past Spencer St.
The Pinball Hall of Fame
1610 E.